G8
annual meeting of the leaders of the most powerful states of the world (usa, canada, france, germany, italy, japan, uk and russia)

G8 Summits: 2009 Maddalena • 2008 Hokkaido • 2007 Heiligendamm • 2006 St. Petersburg • 2005 Gleneagles • 2004 USA • 2003 Evian-les-Bains • 2002 Kanaskasis • 2001 Genoa • 2000 Okinava • 1999 Cologne • 1998 Birmingham

G20 Group of 20
2nd league of industrialized countries behind G8. The G20 was set up 1998 to bring together the world's major economies in an informal grouping designed to prevent a repeat of the world financial crisis which sweep through Asia, Russia, and Latin America in 1997-98. (members: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, the European Union, China, Korea, Indonesia, India, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, South Africa and Australia). Crucially, the heads of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank are full members.

G20 Summits: 2006 Melbourne • 2001 Istanbul • 2000 Montreal

G77 Group of 77
3rd league behind G8 and G20, summit of African, Asian and Latin America leaders, representing almost 80 per cent of the world's population. With 133 member countries, the G77 is the largest coalition of developing countries in the United Nations.

GATS General Agreement on Trade in Services
WTO agreement, now being negotiated in Geneva, is mandated to liberalize the global trade in services, including all public programs (like education, health, water, energy, traffic etc.), and gradually phase out all government "barriers" to international competition in the services sector.
(GATS Text in German)

GATT General Agreement on Trade and Tarrifs
signed 1948 instead of the failed ITO, first step towards the WTO. This agreement - originally designed to dismantle tarrifsin international trade - was not replaced by the WTO but enlarged by a few new agreements.

GMOs Genetically Modified Organisms
pushed by the WTO's TRIPs Agreement western agro-, pharma- and chemistry business is introducing transgenetic crops esp. in so called third world countries in big scale to replace biodiversity and small local farmers agriculture by megalomanic monocultures.

Government Procurement